From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 09:01:42 PDT
At 10:42 AM -0400 4/28/03, Steve Grammont wrote:
>
>The Government clearly stated that they wished the Demil bill be passed
>so that they could go back and grab stuff that was sold, legally, but by
>accident. For example, the lister who detailed what appears to have been
>a FLIR system he bought (or something like that) which never should have
>been sold. But of course the legislation was horribly vauge which is
>unfortunately the norm. Those who pass legislation love to give
>themselves as much freedom of action as possible.
It seems like they have a mechanism for this already as evidenced by
the above story. Additional legislation to make it easy and a simple
process to screw over a tax payer to rectify a mistake by a
government employee is over the top.
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